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J Clin Microbiol
; 61(12): e0073123, 2023 12 19.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38014985
RESUMO
IMPORTANCE: Despite the relatively high mortality and the difficulty in diagnosis, nearly one-third of patients hospitalized with a documented diagnosis of encephalitis did not undergo a lumbar puncture (LP). When an LP was performed, pathogen-specific testing was greatly underutilized. Infectious etiologies were most common, but over 40% of cases were idiopathic at discharge. These findings suggest that there is a substantial opportunity to improve the quality of care through more accurate and timely diagnosis.